Pasadena, TX (population: 148,101) has five animal care schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Texas A & M University, the highest ranked school in this group with an animal care program, has a total student population of 48,702. It is the 36th highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state .
Animal Care students from Pasadena schools who go on to become animal care supervisors, veterinarians, animal trainers, animal behavioralists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 15,320 people working as animal control workers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $33,560. Also, Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers make on average $23,400 per year and there are about 71,350 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area alone, there are 1,100 employed veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers earning an average salary of $21,260. Animal control workers in this area earn $30,600/yr and there are 190 employed.
Pasadena lies in Harris county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has 2,563,840 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $21.58/hr average worker wage, and a $44,880 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.075 out of every 1000 jobs in Pasadena are held by animal control workers, and 0.427/1000 are held by veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers.
Of the 5 animal care schools with a 100-mile radius of Pasadena, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Bradford School of Business comes out as the most expensive ($19,052/yr) for animal care students, with Lone Star College System as the lowest, reported at only $4,793/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Pasadena |
South Houston | TX | - | 1 | 23.7623 | 5 | 5.1 miles |
Pearland | TX | 94,215 | 0 | - | 0 | 10.4 miles |
League City | TX | 78,312 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.0 miles |
Baytown | TX | 71,405 | 1 | 12.8813 | 98 | 12.5 miles |
Houston | TX | 2,307,883 | 63 | 23.3749 | 939 | 16.3 miles |
Texas City | TX | 44,907 | 1 | 8.31197 | 63 | 20.7 miles |
Missouri City | TX | 77,622 | 0 | - | 0 | 24.3 miles |
Galveston | TX | 57,154 | 3 | 22.3727 | 45 | 32.2 miles |
The Woodlands | TX | 101,065 | 1 | 14.626 | 77 | 40.1 miles |
Conroe | TX | 61,600 | 0 | - | 0 | 49.5 miles |
Prairie View | TX | - | 1 | 50.8259 | 82 | 58.5 miles |
Beaumont | TX | 110,900 | 4 | 27.5152 | 152 | 67.5 miles |
College Station | TX | 90,406 | 1 | 0.218495 | 0 | 95.1 miles |